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This new working party business - it seems to have all gone very quiet. Anyone any info?

Being a mere member of the public like your goodself Majorp I've no more idea about what is going on than you. I expect town councillors have more idea but as all this is apparently subject to embargos and only discussed in Part II of council meetings the councillors ain't saying anyfin. And yes there is supposedly another working party being set up to discuss the future of the lawn but ...

majorp
majorp
1 Apr 2018

Lynne, your title suggests it is a proposal, yet reading through the minutes, it appears that it is a done deal and that the play park will go ahead subject to funding - is that correct? Ithought that somewhere in the pipe line, there was another consultation to take place - have I got that right?

LITTER
majorp
majorp
1 Apr 2018

Councils in England will from today be able to almost double the maximum on-the-spot fine for littering. Come to Dawlish, there are cig ends everywhere. They would have a field day.

From the minutes of the town council meeting held at the beginning of March. EXTERNAL FUNDING The Clerk provided an update on funding bids made in September 2017 as to funding for a play park on the Lawn by consultants who were appointed by the Council in July 2017. One bid had been successful, and the proposed level of grant funding was tabled. The Clerk advised that, as requested by the ...

1 Apr 2018

Yes I agree about transparency.  And on a not unrelated subject, the 'goings on' with regard to the resignation of the town centre develoment manager also appear to be being kept under wraps.

majorp
majorp
31 Mar 2018

Where is this tranceparency thingy that those in power are always babbling on about? We will know what it will cost later and we will know who the succesful contractor will be,so why aren't we allowed to know first as last. Can councillors be trusted to select a contractor on price alone? Because chances are, that's what they will do.

BOO HOO
BOO HOO
31 Mar 2018

What's left of them from the last time they were butchered down to just a trunk.

Based on the activities of current and previous Dawlish council's I am not surpised in the least when it concerns the micro play park for lazy parents.